...Labour as well as the only woman to serve in the newly-formed Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament), until she left the government in protest against the Anglo-Irish treaty. Map of 1918...
...the British government’s terms for the creation of the Irish Free State. For the first time, the two sides walked around the table; British Ministers shook hands with those Lloyd...
...Board of Agriculture was Captain Henry Greer, a Steward of the Jockey Club and a member of the Irish Turf Club, who had offered to perform the role free of...
...in the 1830s. He advocated co-operation with the Irish leader Daniel O’Connell and conciliation of Catholics through Irish Church and institutional reform – a policy which divided and radicalised the...
The 3 Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski ‘Il y a du nouveau’ On 26 July 1939, in the Pyry Forest south of Warsaw, Polish cryptologists revealed...
...of 1673 and 1678, all non-Anglicans had been barred from holding political office in Britain. In 1828, the matter came to a head when the veteran Irish political activist Daniel...
...Government Art Collection The Temple family were Anglo-Irish landlords with no long tradition of political eminence, but Palmerston, who inherited the title at the age of 17, wanted to change...
...been pushed back, and Russia’s collapse meant that Turkey, no longer pressed on its Caucasian borders, was free to expand eastwards towards India, with German support. By the end of...
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-e1483652073427.jpg)
...of the Irish Office and Ministry of Food. Philip Kerr dealt with Colonial Office, Foreign Office and India Office matters. For David Davies there was a focus on military business,...
...rallying Liberal and Irish MPs to defeat the government by attacking the Irish Church Establishment. The Liberals won a decisive electoral victory and for the next three years it seemed...